SUPPLEMENT FOR 1887. 



EXPLAN ATION. 



The names of horses in black type, arranged in alphabetical order, are those of the winners 

 of the races, and under each horse's name the races won by him appear in chronological order. 

 All races are trotting, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, unless the contrary is shown by 

 the time, stated at the conclusion of the summary, or a different way of going indicated by proper 

 signs. After the name of the winner appears his description, as " b s," for bay stallion, " br g," 

 for brown gelding, "gr m," for gray mare, etc. The following figures, in heavy type and in 

 parentheses, show the best record of the horse to the close of the year 1887. Then follow the 

 pedigree of the winner, when known ; the name of the nominator, place and date of race, amount 

 of money trotted for, and the name of the horses beaten, in the order of their standing at the 

 close of the race, and last comes the time of the heats. The ordinary signs are used to denote 

 the incidents and casualties of the race. Thus, the character " " in connection with a number 

 in a bracket indicates that the horse whose name that sign follows made a dead heat in accord- 

 ance with the number, viz. : (3 0) signifies third heat dead. The abbreviation "dr" signifies 

 drawn; u dis," distanced; " r o," ruled out; " w o," walk over," etc. Figures following the 

 name of a beaten horse show that he won the heat or heats corresponding with the number. 

 When the letter " w " follows the name of a horse, it signifies that he went to wagon; "c," that 

 he went to cart; and the letter " s " that he went under saddle. In cases where a horse has a 

 record to harness, or wagon, and a faster one under saddle, both are given. When an asterisk 

 (*) is attached to the figures usually denoting a record, it signifies that the time, being over a 



short track, is a bar and not a record. The summaries preceded by dashes ( ) are subsequent 



victories of the horse whose description and record have been given, and in these, if the name 

 of nominator, or of place of trotting, or of both of these, are not given, it signifies that they 

 are identical with those of the race immediately preceding. It sometimes happens that a horse 

 winning as a stallion wins later as a gelding, in which case the castration is shown by the change 

 in the description ; but there being no renewal of the name, it will be understood that it is the 

 same horse under changed conditions. In order to keep them of record, losing performances 

 against time are given under the name of the losing horse, as a part of his history, and the fact 

 that he lost is mentioned in the summary. The numerals at the right of the printed pages 

 divide them into blocks of ten lines each, for convenience of reference in the Index of Beaten 

 Horses, and the reader is referred to the explanation preceding that Index. 



